Inking-pad.



No' 7|0699' Patented Oct. 7, |902.

J. B. LAUGHTUN. Y

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(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEETCE.

JOSEPH B. LAUGHTON, OF VESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

lNKlNG-PAD.

SPECFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 710,699, dated October '7, 1902.

Application filed December 26, 1901. Serial No. 87,145. (No model.)

To f//ZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH 13. LAUGHTON, a citizen of the United States of America, anda resident of lVestfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin lnking-Pads, 0f which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in inking-pads and holders or containers therefor.

The invention comprises a shallow box or tray having hinged thereto at the rear edge thereof a rectangular frame adapted to be swung open rearwardlyaway from and closed over upon the top of the box in the manner of a hinged box-cover and having an inkingpad journaled at its opposite ends centrally within said rectangular 'frame and adapted when the frame is swung open to have an overturning movement within the frame, so that when the frame is again placed in its closed position on and above the upper edge of the box the surface of the inking-pad may be uppermost and outermost and in presentation for inking a rubber stamp, or the back of the pad or the sheath or container therefor may be uppermost, the inverted pad being inclosed and protected within the box; and the invention furthermore comprises a handle or thumb-piece formed as an exten#v sion of one of the journals for the reversible pad located beyond the ends of the hinged frame, by means of which with the thumb and finger the pad may be reversed without directly touching it to soil or smutch the nger; and the invention furthermore comprises in the appliances as first above characterized the arrangement of rests or ledges at the ends of the box, located within the ends of the container or support for the pad proper, so that the pad may have ample support on said rests to be immovably sustained for receiving the impact thereupon of the stamp to be inked.

The improved inking-pad is fully and clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view showing the hinged frame as swung upwardly from the box to permit the swinging and overturning action therewithin of the pad and its container. Fig. 2is a longitudinal section of the device, the swinging frame being shown as swung down to its closed position upon the top of the box and showing the hiking-pad with its inkingsurface uppermost. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2, the pad being, however, shown as inverted and inclosed within the box and having its lower'surface in contact against an ink-replenishing absorbent layer located in the bottom of the box.

Similar characters of reference in dicate corresponding parts in all of the views.

In the drawings, A represents the box or tray,of rectangular form, having in its bottom a layer a of felt or other absorbent'material susceptible of having incorporated therein the inking material for supplying and replenishing the pad B.

C represents a rectangular frame in external size corresponding substantially to that of the box, and said frame is at its rear longitudinal edge at b hinged at and along the rear edge of the box, a cloth hinge being suitable for such connection. It will be noticed that the end members d d of the frame are comparatively thin or narrow and that the rests or supports ff at and within both ends of the box when the frame is swung down on the upper edge of the box have theirl locations within the frame end members d.

The pad B has its bottom and edges inclosed within the pad container or sheathjl2 which may advantageously be a shallow sheetmetal tray or pan, the inking-face'of the pad expanding above the open top of the container, and the said container has at its ends outside of' the ends of the pad the portions g g to be supported on the aforementioned rests ff of the box to give steady and stable support to the padt The pad is pivoted in its central longitudinal line within the center of theframe C, and one of the pintles or journal-rods projects endwise outwardly beyond the frame and has the handle t', which when grasped by the thumb and fingers aords means for easily rotating the pad-container and padwithin the frame.

As shown in Fig. 2, the handle-provided journal-rod has its stem or shank passed loosely through a perforation j therefor in the frame and penetrates by a tight driving IOO t the material composing the pad-container and the pad-base, so that bypositively rotating the journal-rod the container and pad will be turned as one therewith.

The parts f and g, shown in the drawings as strips secured in their appropriate places within the ends of the box and the pad-container outwardly beyond the ends of the pad, might integrally be formed with the box and container.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination of a box; a frame hinged to the box; an ink-pad journaled in the frame; means other than the journals for supporting the ink-pad in the box with the inking-faoe uppermost and its reverse side free from the bottom of the box; the frame and inkpad being arranged to permit the inking-face to engage the bottom of the box.

2. The box Ofrectangularform having atits opposite ends the rests ff combined with the rectangular frame at its rear longitudinal edge hinge-connected to the corresponding edge of the box, and having its end members (Z d arranged outside of the inner edges of said rests ff, and the pad pivotally supported within and in the central longitudinal line of said frame, and adapted when the frame is swung to its closed position, to have the end portions of such pad supported upon said rests, substantially as described.

3. Inking-pad devices consisting of the rectangular box, the rectangular framel hingeconnected at one edge to the box, and the pad arranged within the frame and having journal members by which the pad is pivotally and reversibly supported within tle frame, one of said journal members passing loosely through a perforation therefor in the frame, and with a driving fit or engaging connection into the pad, and having its outer end portion extended beyond the frame, and provided with a handle, substantially as described.

Signed by me at Springfield, Massachusetts, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH B. LAUGHTON. 'Witnesses WM. S. BELLoWs, M. A. CAMPBELL. 

